Interesting article in Esquire

The people we are about to hand over the reins to

There’s something admirable about them. They come to the meetings when nobody else does. They listen. They take notes. They are involved in the civic life of their communities. They are also monomaniacal. Every point they make is conclusive. Every argument they make is definitive. No event is singular. One thing — always, inevitably — leads to another. They are not conspiracy theorists, per se – although some of them are – but simply people who have lost faith in coincidence. Every act is a deliberate act connected to another deliberate act, connected to another one, back through the decades. Sometimes, they’re even right, which is always a good thing. More often, they make the meetings longer and more pointless, and everybody starts sweating and cursing under their breath, and then not under their breath, because the old steam-heat radiators are crackling and whistling and parboiling democracy and nothing’s getting done. They sail blithely on, smiling their secret smiles, and they will be back next week. And the week after that.

And, by this time tomorrow, they are the people who are probably going to be ruling these United States of America.

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